Sportspeople - amateurs and competitors - know that a suitable diet enhances physical endurance. It optimises performance within each individual's natural limits and according to their training regime. Finally, it allows you to recover better. What should you eat? When? How much? Here are some answers and advice.

The Adult Sportsperson's Nutritional Needs The sportsperson's diet needs to be monitored regularly from the training stage onwards. It must be adequate in both quality and quantity in order to replenish energy ...	The Nutritional Needs Of Children Who Play Sport Growth and practising sport regularly increase children's nutritional requirements and energy expenditure. Growth or intensive physical activity can be effected adversely if...
The Sportperson's Nutritional Education In order to be in optimum physical condition for sports, the sportsperson should choose a balanced diet but one that is acceptable to his or her individual taste...	Three Types Of Diet The sportsperson's schedule follows a 3-phase cycle: training, competition and recovery. Each of these phases can be helped by different types of diet...
Pre-Competition Diet Time required between meals and exercise, and contents of meals...	Hydration And Performance The sportsperson's performance is closely related to the degree of dehydration - the lower the amount of water in the body, the worse they perform physically...
Food For Sport The recent Olympics and other major tournaments may have motivated some into taking up a sport. Sport is a good form of exercise as it enables us to build strength, stamina and endurance besides sharpening our mental alertness...